INFRASTRUCTURE
27. Our main partner: (i) was member of the legal team that counselled a client for an unsuccessful offer in a major metro transportation system bidding before the project owner company; (ii) was member of the team that acted as Colombian counsel to an offshore bank syndicate for the negotiation and execution of successive loan agreements with that metro project company; and, (iii) successfully negotiated the Colombian national government’s sovereign guarantee on payment of the said loans.
28. As project lead lawyer, our main partner advised a world-leading infrastructure equipment manufacturer and met with a major municipal utility to discuss (i) whether the city’s low-income district’s seasonal river inundations or drought-induced fires storms should be legally treated as manifest urgencies; (ii) on how that could enable direct financing through a national state’s development soft loan; for (iii) expedient procurement of waterworks equipment and construction. The matter was not implemented at the time of our counselling. However, that loan was contracted years later after its approval by the city council. Our client did not participate in the project.
29. Counseled a major EPC company successively (i) for the establishment in Colombia of a branch; (ii) continued legal support for this branch’s corporate and labor compliance and for commercial contracting; (iii) liquidation of original branch following its foreign parents absorption through merger; (iv) establishment of new parent company’s Colombian branch reflecting that (v) continued legal support for the new branch; and, (vi) legal support for liquidation of branch.
30. Advised consortium led by our client in an unsuccessful bid for the financing, expansion, rehabilitation, maintenance and operation of waterworks and sewage concession for coastal city in Colombia City, including regulatory counsel on tariffs modification over the project’s term and implications of lack of prior approval for an exclusive water supply and sewage service area. The project was not awarded to the consortium.
31. Advised client for offering in a public bidding for a BOM aqueduct concession contract, where a river’s water would be to be supplied to a major coastal city. Our advice included assessing the project’s structuring risk due to legally complex preexisting institutional conditions. Our client’s bid was unsuccessful and, even though awarded and contracted, the awardee did not perform the project due to legal and technical impediments.
32. Advised and represented the concessionaire of a major citiy’s sanitary landfill leach treatment for extension of the concession’s term conveying the engagement of a subontractor. The subcontract was not agreed on without this having affected the concession’s continuity.
33. Please click on the GENERAL EXPERIENCE Panel below to consult our experience in residential utilities infrastructure under NATURAL GAS described in items 2 and 7, and under ENERGY in items 15 and 16.